“Until you show us citizenship, don’t come back here applying for an applicaton for an occupancy permit and you can take it all the way to wherever you want to take it,” Hoskins said on the video. “We’re going to go down there and see if anybody living in your houses are not citizens.”

The Missouri Immigrant and Refugee Advocates believe Hoskins is violating federal law. The group has filed a federal complaint.

“It was a little disconcerting to see that from an elected official, it’s not something we expected,” said David Nehrt-Flores with Missouri immigrant and Refugee Advocates. “This is something we’re seeing, a process used to discriminate against others in their community and it’s something we take strong issue with.”